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Best low-debt high-ROE stocks for 2026: balance-sheet quality compounders

Conservatively financed compounders are durable through interest-rate cycles in a way that levered ones are not. The cohort below filters for debt-to-equity at or below 0.5 (so balance-sheet stress in a recession is less likely to forced-sell the asset base) and ROE at or above 15% (so the equity capital is being deployed productively, not just hoarded). Pair-comparison against the levered version of the same business is the cleanest read on how much of a peer's return is from operating leverage versus financial leverage.

How we picked: Cohort: debt/equity between 0 and 0.5, ROE at least 15%, market cap at least $1B. Sorted by market cap descending.

Source snapshot 2026-08-04 · freshness SLO 72 hours.

  1. 01
    NVDANVIDIA Corporation

    Debt/equity of 0.1 alongside ROE of 114.3%.

    5.00T USD
  2. 02
    GOOGLAlphabet Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.2 alongside ROE of 48.7%.

    4.57T USD
  3. 03
    GOOGAlphabet Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.2 alongside ROE of 48.7%.

    4.56T USD
  4. 04
    MSFTMicrosoft Corporation

    Debt/equity of 0.3 alongside ROE of 34.0%.

    3.62T USD
  5. 05
    AMZNAmazon.com, Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.5 alongside ROE of 30.6%.

    3.06T USD
  6. 06
    TSMTaiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited

    Debt/equity of 0.2 alongside ROE of 40.0%.

    1.89T TWD
  7. 07
    METAMeta Platforms, Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.4 alongside ROE of 29.8%.

    1.50T USD
  8. 08
    MUMicron Technology, Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.1 alongside ROE of 66.6%.

    936.83B USD
  9. 09
    SKHYSK hynix Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.1 alongside ROE of 92.7%.

    797.80B KRW
  10. 10
    ASMLASML Holding N.V.

    Debt/equity of 0.1 alongside ROE of 53.9%.

    627.32B EUR
  11. 11
    COSTCostco Wholesale Corporation

    Debt/equity of 0.2 alongside ROE of 29.2%.

    423.11B USD
  12. 12
    AMATApplied Materials, Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.3 alongside ROE of 39.7%.

    411.44B USD
  13. 13
    LRCXLam Research Corporation

    Debt/equity of 0.3 alongside ROE of 65.1%.

    368.64B USD
  14. 14
    PLTRPalantir Technologies Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.0 alongside ROE of 32.6%.

    301.22B USD
  15. 15
    GEVGE Vernova Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.3 alongside ROE of 82.6%.

    268.13B USD
  16. 16
    SAPSAP SE

    Debt/equity of 0.2 alongside ROE of 18.3%.

    218.65B EUR
  17. 17
    SNDKSandisk Corporation

    Debt/equity of 0.0 alongside ROE of 39.3%.

    190.74B USD
  18. 18
    WDCWestern Digital Corporation

    Debt/equity of 0.2 alongside ROE of 85.9%.

    181.72B USD
  19. 19
    MRVLMarvell Technology, Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.3 alongside ROE of 16.0%.

    169.70B USD
  20. 20
    RIORio Tinto Group

    Debt/equity of 0.3 alongside ROE of 19.3%.

    163.47B USD
  21. 21
    UBERUber Technologies, Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.5 alongside ROE of 35.3%.

    145.77B USD
  22. 22
    PDDPDD Holdings Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.0 alongside ROE of 25.4%.

    128.32B CNY
  23. 23
    PGRThe Progressive Corporation

    Debt/equity of 0.2 alongside ROE of 34.9%.

    122.36B USD
  24. 24
    FTNTFortinet, Inc.

    Debt/equity of 0.4 alongside ROE of 117.4%.

    119.75B USD
  25. 25
    VRTXVertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated

    Debt/equity of 0.1 alongside ROE of 24.2%.

    119.47B USD
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